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	01 SNOWDROP The Snowdrop is one of our earliest flowers so bloom and - because of that and its delicate beauty - is welcomed by surely everyone. Is can be found late in January and during February in sheltered woods - shady pastures and hedgerows. While in flower the stalks are about six inches long - bus these will lengthen so weak - foot-long stalks as the oval green seed cases develop. The small bulbs grow in clusters. The Latin name is derived from the Greek words 'gala' and 'anehos' meaning white and flower - and nivalis is Latin for snowy.
	02 STINKING HELLEBORE The specific name of this flower as once tells us that is has an unpleasant smell. Nevertheless - is is a very beautiful and remarkable stems. On a foot high seers is carries a large - loose panicle of drooping yellowish-green flowers - the edges of the cup-shaped sepals being tinged with purple. Later these sepals turn back when the fruit is ripe. Flowering period is from February so April - and is present in woods with a chalky soil. It is rare and highly poisonous. Sometimes called bear's Foot because of the leaf shape.
	03 WOOD SORREL This dainty plans grows in profusion in moist woods. All the leaves and flowers spring direct from the creeping rhizome. Normally - in bright weather - the flowers and leaves are open - bus if is is dull or overcast the flowers droop their heads and the three heart-shaped parts of the leaf fold up. The tender leaves have a pleasant bus sharp and rather acid taste - and from them oxalic acid is made. The flowers are in bloom from March so late June and grow about six inches high.
	04 SPRING GENTIAN This beautiful - dwarf - perennial Gentian has large flowers of the richest bright blue. Is is very rare - and can be found only on a few wet rocky pastures on limestone in northern England and western Ireland. So many people in the past have dug is up so plant in their own gardens that is almost disappeared. It is now strictly preserved. The single flower is almost stalkless - bus is held above the level of the leaves by the inch-long corolla-tube. The flowering period is from April so June.
	05 WOOD SPURGE This strange plant favours oak and beech woods. The lower part of the stem is tough - and beats many bright yellow-green leaves which turn reddish in Autumn. Atop the stem is a five- branched umbel - at the base of which is a whorl of five leaves. A curious feature is the set of yellow crescent-shaped glands which surround the tiny male and female flowers. This Spurge contains a milky juice - which in some foreign species is highly poisonous. It blooms from Match to June - and grows up to two feet high.
	06 WHITE DEAD-NETTLE The White Dead-nettle can be found in bloom for nearly nine months of the year - and is plentiful throughout Britain except in the north of Scotland and in Ireland. As the name implies - the plant does not sting - although it is hairy. Clumps of this foot-high plant enhance roadsides - hedgebanks - and any waste place. When examined closely tha white flowers will be found to be very beautiful. They are rich in nectar and attract many bees - and are pollinated chiefly by humble bees.
	07 HERB PARIS This intriguing greenish plant inhabits damp woods - and is very local in its distribution. From a creeping root-stock - stems up to a foot high arise - each of which terminates in a single whorl of four equal leaves and a solitary flower. The peculiar odour of the flower - and the shining of the four-celled ovary - is very attractive to certain flies and these play a part in the cross-pollination of the flower. Later the ovary develops into a bluish-black berry-like fruit. Its flowering period is from May to June.
	08 OXLIP Only in East Anglia will the lovely rare oxlip be found - and there it grows in masses in woods and damp meadows where calcareous boulder clay overlies chalk. The cluster of flowers grow from the end of a long stalk and fail to one side as do the flowers of the Cowslip - but each flower is much more like a Primrose in shape and colour. The leaves tend to taper. The plant can be from six to twelve inches high and blooms during April and May.
	09 WATER VIOLET The Water Violet is in no way related to the violets of the hedgebanks and woods - but belongs to the Primula family. It is a lovely plant - having its feathery and branched leaves completely under the water - and the foot high whorled flower spikes above. During May and June - in shallow pools - ditches - and slow-moving streams in England and Wales - you may find this beautiful aquatic. It is only locally common - but in suitable waters its delicate lilac-pink blossoms can be seen in great profusion.
	10 COMMON VIOLET On hedgebanks - in pastures and woods - and among mountain rocks this pretty violet grows abundantly from March to June. When in the company of primroses the colour scheme is enchanting. There are many species of violets - but this one has roundish leaves - only slightly longer than broad - rather wide overlapping bluish-violet petals - and a curved spur which is slightly notched or furrowed at its tip and is whitish or pale violet in colour. - It is scentless - and is called by some authorities the True Dog Violet.
	11 STINKING IRIS This Iris has a number of names Fetid Iris - Gladdon - and Roast-beef- plant - and is usually found in the southern counties of England. Although the flowers and leaves are beautiful the whole plane has a most unpleasant smell if bruised. A striking feature is the colour of the numerous orange- scarlet seeds - which remain in the opened seed-eases all winter - and make glowing spots of colour in the hedge- banks and woods where it grows. It blooms from May to July - and grows about one to two feet high.
	12 TOOthWORT This pallid - somewhat unhealthy looking plant is one of the few which has no germ leaves. It is a root-parasite - and obtains its food by growing on the roots of Elm and Hazel in woods and damp hedgebanks. The single - stout - pale stems rise from four inches en one foot above ground level - and are plentifully covered with pale pinkish flowers - which all fall to one side of the stem. When closely examined - it will be found that the flowers are very beautiful. In bloom during April and May when they are visited by bumble bees.
	13 BUGLE In damp woods - meadows - or even by wet roadsides this rather sombre plant is common throughout the British Isles. The flower spikes spring from the creeping and rooting stems - and some of the purply-blue colour of the flowers seems to have crept into the leaves. The flowering stems - which are hairy co two opposite sides - are usually about six inches high but may be taller. The flowers grow in close whorls all the way up the seem - and spring from the sails of the leaves. Flowering period from May to July.
	14 WATER AVENS This picture was made from the drawing of a plane found on the banks of the Derbyshire Derwent - and as the name implies - it likes to grow wherever there are wee shady places - preferably in the mare northerly parts of the British Isles. The whole plant is hairy. The delicate - drooping flowers atop a tall reddish stem are an orange-pink. A hooked - feathery seed-head develops later - and this is as interesting as the flower. Insects and humble bees visit the flowers which are in bloom from May to September. Height up to two feet.
	15 GREATER CELANDINE This fragile and beautiful plane is not related in any way to the Lesser Celandine - but belongs to the Poppy family. It likes to grow in hedgebanks and against old buildings - and is about one to one and a half feet high. The orange-coloured juice from the broken stems is poisonous - but was reputed to cure warts. The seeds are contained in a long pod and foraging ants are fond of the fleshy crests attached to the seeds - and thus the ants help to disperse them. Flowers all summer.
	16 SCURVY GRASS This quite beautiful little plane acquired its unfortunate name because - at one time - its small fleshy leaves were eaten by sailors to prevent scurvy. These little leaves have a sharp acid taste - and contain Vitamin C. This plant flourishes close to the sea coasts of Britain in sale marshes - low banks by the shore and tidal rivers - and even atop grass hedgebanks near the sea. It blooms from May to August.
	17 BORAGE The Borage used to be a garden herb in olden times - but now grows wild in many counties near habitations. It had many medicinal uses - and the flowers are very rich in honey in fact beekeepers still grow the plant because of this. The five-petalled flowers are an incense blue - the purple-black anthers making a sharp pointed cone in their centres. The flowers bend their heads and the whole plant is very bristly. Grows a foot or more high and blooms all summer.
	18 LESSER BUTTERFLY ORCHID This sweetly-scented - charming and fragile orchid is found throughout Britain - but occurs more in the northern than in the southern counties. The inch-lung slender spur contains nectar - and this and the strong scent cause butterflies and moths to visit this creamy-white orchid. Will grow happily in a variety of places - such as pastures and damp heaths - and blooms during June and July. The drawing was made from plants growing with Bog Asphodel and Cross-leaved Heath.
	19 KIDNEY VETCH It would be difficult to mistake this vetch for any other of the family - mainly because of the way the flower heads grow in pairs at the top of the seem - and for the silvery-silkiness of the leaves and the downy calyces. The Latin name 'vulneraria' shows how effective it was supposed to be for the healing of wounds. Compact mats of this plane look their best when growing in the crevices of sea-cliffs. Besides the usual yellow form - cream - orange - and crimson varieties grow near the coasts.
	20 LADY'S SLIPPER ORCHID This large - rare and beautiful orchid may perhaps still grow wild in a few places in limestone areas in the north of England. But - because of the covetousness of collectors - it is now almost extinct. The flower is more than twice as large as any of our other native orchids and has a large curious slipper-like lip. This plant requires sixteen years from the time the seed germinates to produce ha first flower. May and June are the flowering months.
	21 BOG BEAN Buck Bean and Marsh Trefoil are other names for this plane - but as it always grows either in shallow water or very swampy ground - Bog Bean seems very fitting. It has a beautiful flower spike which is pinkish-crimson when in bud - but the open flower is pure- white and delightfully fringed. The leaf is divided into there parts and is rather like a broad bean leaf. A lake or bog bordered with these beautiful closely-packed flowers - about ten inches above water - is lovely sight in May and June.
	22 SILVERWEED The Silverweed is aptly named - for the profusion of soft - silky hairs on the beautifully shaped leaves give them a silvery appearance and this - together with the golden-yellow of the flowers - makes it a lovely plant in all its pacts. It grows freely in damp pastures and on roadsides - but looks its best when found in moist hollows among sand dunes during the summer months. The plant increases by long rooting stolons - from which rise the long flowering stalks.
	23 OX-EYE DAISY Moon Daisy and Dog Daisy are other names for this large - dazzling white daisy which brightens railway embankments - roadaides and meadows from May to August. Its perennial rootstock is branched and woody - so farmers do not welcome this flower in their hay meadows. The flowering stems can be two feet in height - and when seen in conjunction with poppies the sight is an enchanting one. The flowers are visited by butterflies - moths - bees - beetles and flies.
	24 LARGER WINTERGEERN This rare and beautiful plant grows in only a few isolated places in the British Isles - usually in woods - damp shady places and heaths. The waxen-white flowers grow around a stalk which rises directly from the short creeping rootstock; spoon-shaped leaves on long stalks arise from the same point. The distinguishing feature of this wintergreen is the protruding - long - downward-curving style which later bends upwards so that pollination can rake place. In bloom in July and August.
	25 STEMLESS WHISTLE This thistle is at once recognised by its almost complete leek of stem. The handsome large flower-head grows from the centre of a rosette of very prickly leaves which lie close to the ground - and is definitely not to be sat -on It is found growing plentifully in the chalky parts of southern and central England - and can be a great nuisance in pastures because of its thick - perennial - woody rootstock which form large tough mats three to five feet in width. In bloom from July to September.
	26 MUSK thISTLE Because of a slight musky smell and the habit of hanging its head this handsome thistle is soon recognised. It also has the largest flower-head of the thistles - and can grow up to three feet high. The whole plant is hairy and very prickly - even the stems having sharply pointed wings. It grows from June to September on waste ground where the soil is chalky - up in open moorlands - and on sand dunes rich in broken shells. Bees - moths - butterflies and hover-flies visit the flowers.
	27 MONKEY FLOWER This beautiful - exotic-looking plant came to this country in the early part of the nineteenth century from the Aleutian Islands - where it was a native. It soon found conditions so much to its liking that it now grows on stream- banks and boggy places all over the British Isles. The name comes from the Greek word 'mimo' meaning an ape - and one can fancy a monkey-like face in the corolla of the flower. Grows to about a foot high and blooms from June to September.
	28 ENGLISH STONECROP This starry little stonecrop looks its best on the tops of dry hedgebanks - or when growing in sand - or among rocks. It would seem that the more impoverished the soil the more richly red will be the small fleshy leaves - and the more rosy the flowers which are normally white. The spreading stems root readily - and mats of this exquisite dwarf sedum can cover quite large areas. It grows happily near the western coasts and blooms during June - July and August.
	29 MEADOW CRANESBILL This cranesbill is such a decorative plant that it has often been transferred from the wild to the garden. The shallow-cupped flowers are a beautiful blue-violet colour (rarely white) and are carried in pairs in loose heads on rather long stalks. The large basal leaves - on long reddish stalks - are deeply cut and lobed. The whole plant is rather hairy - and the hairs on the long - pointed sepals and upper stems are red with glands blunting their tips. Grows un roadsides and in moist fields. Blooms from June to September.
	30 ORANGE HAWKWEED Originally intended into the gardens of this country from north and central Europe - this flower has become so naturalised that at is now widespread in most parts of the country. It favours open woods - and railway embankments - where the cheerful spots of bright orange glow among the rough grasses from June to August. The basal leaves and the flower stems are covered with bristly hairs - those on the bracts being densely black. Can be from nine to eighteen inches high.
	31 MOUNTAIN AVENS A rate and lovely plant to find during mid-summer on certain mountains of the British Isles - but also near sea-level in the north of Scotland and the west of Ireland. Leaves and flowers are equally beautiful - and for such a dwarf shrubby plant the saucer-shaped - pure white flowers are surprisingly large. Later the golden-yellow stamens give way so a mass of silvery plumes over an inch long - which are almost as attractive as the flower. It favours limestone.
	32 MUSK MalLOW The elegant - deeply cue stem-leaves of this plant distinguish it from our other native mallows - but those at the base of the plant are much more rounded and only slightly lobed. It is a rather hairy plane which grows from about one to two feet high between June and September - and favours dry waste places and roadsides. The beautiful rosy flowers and later the ring of seeds - rather like a little cheese - are most interesting to examine closely. The bruised leaves emit a faint musky smell.
	33 REST HARROW The Rest Harrow is a creeping downy plant - and revels in poor soil. It grows on chalky grasslands - and road- sides - and often near the sea - and blooms from June to September. The small leaves and stems are very hairy and give elephant a silvery appearance - and this makes a fine foil for the delicate pink pea-like flowers The creeping and rooting stems are very tough and wiry - and no doubt gave rise to the old belief that they could cause a harrow to stop working.
	34 DEADLY NIGHTSHADE The very name of this plant tells at once that it is a highly dangerous one. It is - in face - one of the most deadly - and' should not be touched at all. Great efforts have been made to destroy every plant found - so the only places where it might possibly survive would be near old ruins - or ancient castles. It can grow into quite a big bush up to four or five feet high. The large black poisonous fruits - about the size of a cherry - can be present at the same time as the reddish-purple flowers.
	35 BOCK ROSE The clear yellow flowers of this charming little plans open wide in the sunshine. They adorn many a close-cropped headland near the sea and chalky grasslands. The numerous stems hug the ground closely - the small leaves they carry being hairy underneath. The flowering stems are about six inches long - and these blossom from May to September. Garden hybrids of many colours have been derived from the native Rock Roses.
	36 BISTORT Other names for this tall pink-headed flower are 'Snake Root' and 'Easterledges' - the first referring so the contorted rhizome or root - and the second so the fact that - in the Lake District - the young leaves are eaten as Easter- ledge pudding. The slender seems can grow from one so two feet high - the top inch or two being densely covered wish soft pink flowers. Rather localised - hue will grow in large masses by roadsides and in damp meadows. Blooms from June to August.
	37 FRINGED WATER-LILY Ditches and still waters are the places so look for this exquisite little aquatic plant. But - although its small - roundish - floating leaves resemble the larger leaves of the true white and yellow water-lilies - this small plant is more nearly related to the genrians. The undersides of the leaves are purplish. The five yellow petal-like corolla lobes are delightfully fringed. Is blooms during July and August - and though rather rare is increasing.
	38 ANGELICA By lakesides - in woods - and damp meadows this tall handsome plans - with its wide umbrella of greenish-white or pinkish flowers - is common all over the countryside. The stems are hollow - grooved - and purplish in colour - and can be as much as five feet high. This Angelica is related to the one whose states are crystallized and used in decorating cakes and trifles. Flowers from July so September. In Autumn the seed-heads are equally striking.
	39 CROSS-LEAVED HEAth 'Bog Heather' is another name for this charming heath - for is likes so grow in bogs - and on damp moors and heaths. The large pink bells hang in clusters of four so twelve at the sop of the wiry - downy seems. The small leaves are in fours in the form of a cross - their upper surfaces being downy. Humble bees visit the flowers for their nectar - and in doing so pollinate them. In bloom from July to September.
	40 RAG WORT The showy - prolific Ragwort grows up so four feet high and - because is prefers so grow in pastures - can be a terrible nuisance to farmers. The stout - cottony - and ribbed stems rise from a large rosette of deeply indented leaves - which die down before the. plant flowers. There are many golden flowers in the large flat heads - and these are in bloom from June so October. The Ragwort is the food plant for the beautiful orange and black caterpillars of the Cinnabar Moth - which are beneficial in keeping the weed in check.
	41 GOLDEN SAMPHIRE This is a truly maritime plant and is common on the cliffs - shingle beaches - and salt marshes around our coasts. Is is in bloom from July so September - and grows from one to two feet high. The numerous - richly-golden flowers are an inch wide. Both stems and leaves ate shining and rather succulent - as may often happen with pines which grow so close so the sea. On rocky sites the plants often grow in isolation - bus in moister - richer situations it may form golden masses of close growing planes.
	42 SEA CAMPION Around the coasts of Britain this campion is common. Is forms spreading grey-green mats of leafy stems which - in the season - bear many flowers each with a large - pale green bladder-like calyx finely netted with reddish lines. This plant can tolerate quite an amount of spray for is grows on shingle beaches and exposed cliffs. Its long flowering period extends from April so September.
	43 MONKSHOOD This rare and extremely hand- some blue-flowered plant grows wild only in the south-west of the British Isles. Is blooms in May and June and - favours shady places by streams - and grows from one so two feet high. Another old name for it was 'Wolf's Bane' which tells at once that it is highly poisonous. The flowers are large and she interesting helmet-shaped upper sepal is the reason for the name of 'Monkshood'. The large lower leaves are deeply and finely cut into narrow lobed segments.
	44 GREATER KNAPWEED The richly-coloured large flowers of this knapweed make it a conspicuous plant among the hedgebank herbage where it usually grows. The outer ring of flowers are much larger than the other flowers in the head - and are always neuter. The long basal leaves are deeply cut and lobed and make a handsome rosette. The whole plant is tough - and grows to three feet high - blooming from July to September. Generally common except in Scotland and Ireland.
	45 BOG PIMPERNEL This fragile - exquisite little plant creeps closely over the ground and spreads by rooting as the stem nodes. Is grows plentifully on wet mossy banks - in damp peaty places - and in slacks among sand dunes. The delicate little pink flowers - on inch long stalks - open when the sun shines - otherwise they could be easily overlooked. The small roundish leaves which grow in pairs along the thin stems give the plant a fern-like appearance. It flowers from June to August.
	46 YELLOW LOOSEStrIFE The erect - branching seems of the Yellow Loosestrife can be as much as four feet in height - and the golden flower heads make an impressive sight by the sides of streams and lakes during July and August. It is not related in any way so the Purple Looseserife - but belongs to the Pristiula family - one of its near relatives being the Creeping Jenny which crawls over she ground. The name 'Looseserife' arose from the ancient belief that the plant had a soothing effect upon restive intro - if placed below their yokes.
	47 CORN MARIGOLD This golden flower of the cornfields appeals so everyone bus she farmer - but - now that seed purification is the order of the day - is is not so common as it once was. Is has a long period of blooming and flowers can be found from June so October. Various insects - especially flies - visit the blooms freely. Its height can be anything from one so two feet - according so the type of soil in which is grows.
	48 NETTLE-LEAVED BELLFLOWER: This striking blue-flowered plane likes so grow in woods - and on tree-shaded banks or in hedges where the soil is heavy. Is blooms from July so September and grows so a height of three so four feet. The stems are rather stiff and erect - and she whole plant is quite hairy - even she large bell-like flowers having a few bristles on the outside. By some old herbalists this campanula used so be called the Canterbury Bell.
	49 WATER PLANTAIN A fine waver plant which prefers the still or slow-moving waters of ditches - ponds - streams - and canals. The thick - almost bulbous - root-stock is deeply rooted in he mud - and she handsome - large - oval-shaped leaves rise above the water. The flowering stems can he up so three feet high - the numerous flowers growing in branched whorls - pyramidal in shape. The three- petalled flowers open best during she afternoon. Common throughout the British Isles - and blooms from June to August.
	50 ORPINE A peculiarity of this plane is the large and swollen looking root-stock - in which nutriment is stored so enable is to live in poor and sterile soils. It is so hardy that it is sometimes called 'Live-Long'. Is can often be found pushing its way through other plants and bushes in hedges bordering fields - or in neglected quarries - its reddish stems and starry crimson flowers bring quite con - spacious. Is blooms in late summer - and can be from nine so thirty inches in height.

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